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INTRODUCTION. 
lar defcription of the feveral varieties of 
each fpecies, the reader is referred to the 
printed Catalogue publifhed annually by 
the Author of this Treatife, containing 
the name, colour, and price, of the va¬ 
rious articles, which could not be properly 
introduced into any permanent work of 
this kind, on account of the continual 
changes and alterations that take place, 
both in the value of the articles, which 
is governed .by their novelty, fcarcity, 
or merit, and alfo by the introduflion of 
new forts, and extinftion of others. 
The following fhort account, or hiftory, 
of the cultivation of Flowers, may not be 
deemed foreign to our purpofe; but to 
trace back to their origin, the Flowers 
treated of in the following work, through 
their various ftages of cultivation and 
improvement, and to affert with abfolute 
certainty, of what particular country they 
are 
